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Lydian soldier (Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭, Sparda) [1] of the Achaemenid army, Xerxes I tomb, c. 480 BC. Lydia c. 50 AD , with the main settlements and Greek colonies. Not to be confused with Lycians , another Anatolian people.
Lydia (Ancient Greek: Λυδία, romanized: Ludía; Latin: Lȳdia) was an Iron Age kingdom situated in the west of Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire.
This article lists the known kings of Lydia, both legendary and historical.Lydia was an ancient kingdom in western Anatolia during the first millennium BC. It may have originated as a country in the second millennium BC and was possibly called Maeonia at one time, given that Herodotus says the people were called Maeonians before they became known as Lydians.
The Lydian religion refers to the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Lydians, an ancient people of Iron Age Anatolia.. Based on limited evidence, Lydian religious practices were centred around the fertility of nature, as was common among ancient societies which depended on the successful cultivation of land.
Lydian is an extinct Indo-European [1] Anatolian language spoken in the region of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now in Turkey).The language is attested in graffiti and in coin legends from the late 8th century or the early 7th century to the 3rd century BCE, but well-preserved inscriptions of significant length are so far limited to the 5th century and the 4th century BCE, during the period of ...
Xanthus of Lydia (Greek: Ξάνθος ὁ Λυδός, Xanthos ho Lydos) was a Greek historian, logographer and citizen of Lydia who, during the mid-fifth century BC, wrote texts on the history of Lydia known as Lydiaca (Λυδιακά), a work which was highly commended by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. [1] Xanthus also wrote occasionally about ...
Lydian may refer to: Lydians, an ancient people of Anatolia; Lydian language, an ancient Anatolian language; Lydian alphabet. Lydian (Unicode block) Lydian (typeface), a decorative typeface; Lydian dominant scale or acoustic scale, a musical scale Lydian mode, a mode derived from ancient Greek music
Articles relating to the Lydians, Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group. Subcategories